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things. Three others of his students found graves 

 in Asia. 



Although not a few of his pupils thus met with 

 death early in life, Linnaeus had many pupils who 

 were more fortunate in their career. One, Sparrmann, 

 accompanied Captain Cook in his voyage round the 

 world, and was afterwards engaged at the British 

 Museum until his death. 



The academic career of a college professor and prin- 

 cipal will almost of necessity be the most important 

 part in the entire life of that individual ; and it was 

 during the ten years between 1750 and 1760 that 

 the reputation and learning of Linnaeus became con- 

 solidated and ennobled. 



It was dming this period that the royal museums 

 of Sweden received the greatest amount of attention 

 from the nation ; and in 1754 Linnaeus arranged and 

 published a description of some of these collections. 



During the period named Linnaeus spent much time 

 in the royal palaces of Sweden, classifying and cata- 

 loguing the collections, but became for some time very 

 subject to gout. Whether the cure effected in him 

 may be worth anything I do not know, but he ate 

 most liberally of strawberries, and to this habit he 

 attributed the disappearance of this troublesome com- 

 plaint from his system. 



Botanists have for centuries been open to the charge 

 of giving unpronounceable and impossible-to-be-remem- 

 bered Latin names to their specimens. Linnaeus was 

 about the first to introduce the common names. One 

 writer of that time said : " If a woman, or any of 



